# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ousterhout
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:27:35.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ousterhout"
name: "John Ousterhout"
slug: "john-ousterhout"
description: "John Kenneth Ousterhout is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming."
tagline: "Creator of the Tcl/Tk development environment"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ouster_face.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1954-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.52131466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 188
platforms:
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    title: "John Ousterhout"
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    title: "John Ousterhout"
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    title: "John Ousterhout"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump